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People MOAN and COMPLAIN about code names for one-shot projects, but HERE we have two projects, Weston and Wayland, which are NOT temporary for releases, but the actual permanent names of the projects.

If you are familiar with the namesake towns in Eastern Massachusetts, you will understand RIGHT AWAY how STUPID it was to name these Free Technologies for Everyman, after these towns. These towns are the Scourge of Massachusetts, they think that their trees and water and air and sunshine belong to THEMSELVES and no others. They are the ONLY towns in Massachusetts that have declined to take part in the Eastern Massachusetts Bikeway, and so GREAT PAINS have had to be taken to re-route the trail to deal with these SNOOTY RICH PEOPLE who don't want those criminals with their bicycles invading their town.

The FOOLS were taken in by studies showing that bicycle trails attract crime but NEGLECTED to notice that ABANDONED RAILROAD tracks attract EVEN MORE crime!

Why not names these technologies after hard working blue collar Massachusetts towns like Townsend or Gardner.

BEEFY MIRACLE will soon and shortly forgotten but these terrible names will be with us for a long time.

I must add that in all my years and thousands of miles of bicycling in many states that the ONLY time I have ever had something thrown at me from a moving car was in Weston.

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People MOAN and COMPLAIN about code names for one-shot projects, but HERE we have two projects, Weston and Wayland, which are NOT temporary for releases, but the actual permanent names of the projects.

You know nobody in a position to do anything about this is going to read it here, right?

Note: It is no longer Android once you replace Android with wayland....

It makes it possible to test wayland-apps on android right now? That's useful if we eventually get a more direct wayland path on android (or plain linux on the same hardware), since it means we'll have slightly better-tested software available. It also makes it possible to run wayland apps on top of android, if you should want that (sort of like why you might want an X server in MacOS X).

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Note: It is no longer Android once you replace Android with wayland....

That sounds about equivalent to you reading "First Signs Of Wayland Running On Linux" and saying "It's no longer Linux once you replace Linux with wayland."

Doesn't make any sense.

He didn't replace Android with Wayland. He replaced Android's UI with Wayland, much like Wayland is being made to work in place of X on Linux. And similarly, I'd guess the plan is to make Android's UI work through Wayland as X works through Wayland. Or maybe modify Android to do all its output directly through Wayland.